Bulbinella trinervis (Baker) P.L.Perry

Plants small, up to 0.4 m above ground. Roots ±16, thickened along the whole length, 50-95 mm long, 4 mm wide, growing more or less vertically downwards, thin absorptive roots growing separately and as laterals from older swollen roots, skin very light fawn, internally white. Stem disc 4 mm high, 4 mm in diameter, internally whitish. Fibrous sheathing neck up to 120 mm long, 15 mm in diameter, fibres fine, straight to somewhat reticulate, compact, basally purple. Leaves 5-7, surrounded at base by a cataphyll, ±25 mm high, pale cream-coloured, thinly membranous, supported by a few fine fibrous strands; new leaves scarcely developed at flowering, up to 400 x 1 mm when fully developed, semiterete, bright green; the two margins with minute, sparsely scattered teeth; old leaves turning brown and remaining for more than a year, becoming somewhat spiralled. Raceme narrowly conical in bud becoming narrowly cylindrical, up to 90 mm long, 17 mm in diameter in fruit and bud, with 30-60 flowers; peduncle terete, up to 350 mm long, 1 mm in diameter, glabrous, bright to reddish green; bracts 1.0-1.5 mm long, broadly bracket-shaped, surrounding pedicel at base, membranous, transparent, with a pinkish midrib. Flowers stellate, 6-7 mm in diameter; pedicels 5 mm long, whitish or pinkish in flower becoming green in fruit. Tepals subequal, inner slightly cymbiform, 3 x 1.5 mm, white with a pale pink midrib, pale pink in bud. Filaments adnate to base of tepals, filiform, apiculate, 2.5-3.0 mm long, white. Ovary globose, 1 mm long, 1 mm wide, yellowish green; style cylindrical, 1.25 mm long, white. Capsule 4 mm long, light brown. Seed 3.5 mm long, 2 mm wide, black with lighter, narrow, marginal wings.